Google is considering a plan to keep many of its operations in China, even though it is resigned to closing its flagship search engine over a censorship dispute with the Chinese authorities. The company could keep operating its Beijing research and development centre, advertising sales offices and mobile phone and browser businesses. Some Google web services may survive, including its Chinese music search business and the popular Chinese version of its knowledge market site, Google Answers. Google has held off from carrying out its threat to shut down its Chinese-language search engine and close its offices rather than bow to government censors. It delivered the ultimatum on January 12 after alleged cyber attacks aimed at its source code and at the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists. The closure of the google.cn site would have limited immediate impact on the company’s multibillion-dollar profits, analysts said. It is thought that the bulk of its estimated $300 million revenues in China in 2009 came from export-oriented companies that would need to keep advertising on its sites abroad even if Google.cn closed.for Further: business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/technology/article7066351.ece
